Man threw mother off UCI building, then jumped, police say - Los Angeles Times

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A erstwhile UC Irvine pupil is believed to person thrown his parent from a gathering connected field earlier jumping to his decease connected Tuesday successful an incidental authorities are investigating arsenic a murder-suicide.

The bodies of Andrew Nguyen Doan, 36, and Thao Thi Nguyen, 77, some of Irvine, were recovered successful a plaza successful the School of Social Sciences connected Tuesday afternoon, according to the Irvine Police Department.

“The probe has determined Doan picked up Nguyen and threw her disconnected the landing of a multistory building,” constabulary said. “Doan past jumped from the aforesaid landing to his death.”

Doan was a biologic sciences large astatine UC Irvine from September 2017 to June 2019; helium did not graduate, according to UCI spokesperson Tom Vasich.

Campus constabulary received respective 911 calls reporting 2 radical connected the crushed successful beforehand of a gathering conscionable earlier 4 p.m. Tuesday, Irvine constabulary said. The pair’s bodies were recovered successful the plaza successful the 200 artifact of Pereira Drive.

A motive isn’t known for Tuesday’s fatal incident, but constabulary said they had contacted Doan “multiple times successful the past,” astir precocious successful 2019 for “mental wellness concerns.”

Orange County Superior Court records amusement Doan pleaded blameworthy connected July 10, 2020, to intersexual artillery successful transportation with an incidental that had occurred astir a twelvemonth before.

The 2019 lawsuit progressive intersexual artillery of his roommate astatine a intelligence hospital, said Kimberly Edds, an Orange County territory attorney’s bureau spokesperson.

Court records amusement that Nguyen posted $100,000 bail for her lad connected Sept. 26, 2019, and that helium was aboriginal sentenced to 156 days successful jailhouse and fixed 3 years of probation.

Doan’s probation ended connected July 22 this year, tribunal records show.

Friday was the past time of the autumn 4th astatine the Orange County campus, truthful fewer students were connected tract erstwhile the bodies were found, Vasich said. Still, the assemblage made counselors disposable connected Wednesday to students and others affected by the incident.

Signs with telephone numbers to termination prevention lines and akin messages are posted successful the stairwells adjacent wherever the bodies were found, Vasich said, and determination are much signs astatine assorted locations connected campus.

In 2014, 25-year-old Maxwell Chorak of Santa Ana jumped to his decease from a societal sciences building connected the UC Irvine campus, according to authorities. He died successful the aforesaid plaza wherever Nguyen’s and Doan’s bodies were recovered Tuesday.

Chorak’s stepfather, Matthew Holtzmann, wrote successful a idiosyncratic blog post astatine the clip that his stepson had suffered from intelligence wellness issues.

He wrote of the tract wherever his lad had jumped: “The parking operation had termination prevention tiles with blistery enactment numbers cemented into the walls from the 3rd level upwards. It was the culmination of each parent’s worst nightmare.”

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